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IN MEMORIAM
Singh Honored as Regents
Professor at Oklahoma State
Raj Singh, FASM,
head of the
Oklahoma State University (OSU)
School of Materials Science and
Engineering, Williams Companies
Distinguished Chair Professor,
and Director of Energy Technol-
ogies programs, was honored as
an OSU Regents Professor at the
University Awards Convocation
on December 1, 2015. The title is
bestowed to recognize a scholar or creative artist of excep-
tional ability who has achieved national and international
distinction. Singh’s scientific contributions and inventions
have been used in the development of products such
as ceramic matrix composites for more efficient aircraft
engines, more powerful sodium-sulfur batteries utilized
for energy storage systems, and novel electrolyte retainers
and self-repairing glasses for molten carbonate and solid
oxide fuel cells. In 2015, he was also named a fellow of the
National Academy of Inventors.
Gold Receives ASTM International Award
In January, ASTM Interna-
tional Committee B02 on Nonfer-
rous Metals and Alloys presented
the Gary M. Kralik Distinguished
Service Award to consultant
Michael Gold
of Gold Metallurgi-
cal Services LLC, North Benton,
Ohio. The committee noted Gold’s
outstanding service as a member
since 1979, and his key contribu-
tions to the Subcommittee on Refined Nickel and Cobalt
and Their Alloys (B02.07). Gold is also active on Committee
A01 on Steel, Stainless Steel and Related Alloys. That com-
mittee has honored him with the A01 Award of Excellence
and the Award of Merit, ASTM’s highest award for individ-
ual contributions to standards activities. Gold specializes
in materials applications for boilers and pressure vessels,
including procurement, production, design limits, fabrica-
tion, and failure analysis.
IN MEMORIAM
Donald D. Goehler, FASM,
passed away on December 15,
2015. He was born in Portland,
Oregon, in 1930 and joined the
Puget Sound Chapter in 1957,
where he held every office and
committee position, serving as
chairman, membership chair,
and most recently communi-
cations chair. He was also the ASM Chapter repre-
sentative on the Puget Sound Engineering Council
(PSEC) and treasurer of PSEC between 1996 and 2010.
He was nominated for the Allan Ray Putnam Service
Award for his service to the Chapter in 2004, in recog-
nition of his then over 40 years of continuous service.
Goehler received his bachelor’s degree in metallur-
gical engineering from the Montana School of Mines
in 1952 and joined The Boeing Co. in 1956, where he
rapidly progressed to engineering manager, mate-
rials technology, a position he held until he retired
in 1995. After retiring, he continued as a volunteer
engineer at The Museum of Flight in Seattle where he
worked on restoration of the Boeing B-29.
Conrad H. Knerr
passed away
on January 21. Knerr was a
former owner of one of the
Philadelphia Chapter’s oldest
sustaining member compa-
nies, Metlab Co. Knerr’s father,
Horace, founded Metlab in 1928 and was a
University
of Pennsylvania
graduate in electrical engineering,
and before that was one of the Chapter’s first chairs
in 1924-25. Metlab was originally in the business of
fabricating aircraft airframe components and later
specialized more in heat treating than fabrication.
Conrad earned a bachelor’s of science degree in met-
allurgy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in 1948 and was a registered professional engineer
in Pennsylvania. He served in the U.S. Navy during
WWII. Knerr followed in his father’s footsteps and
joined Metlab in 1948, and was elected to succeed his
father as president in 1961. In 1998, he sold the heat
treating business. Knerr won his Chapter’s Eisenman
award in 1994. He served on many committees over
the years and was a contributing author to the 10th
edition of ASM’s
Metals Handbook.